Summary
Matias Varela is a seasoned computer engineer and educator with 13+ years building backend and full-stack systems, currently teaching algorithms and data structures while designing microservices for AI/IoT products. He is a Python specialist (13+ years) who has worked closely with ML teams and deployed services using FastAPI/Starlette, TimescaleDB/Postgres/MongoDB, Redis, Docker/Kubernetes and Envoy. Matias blends academic rigor—holding a postgraduate program in Crypto, Blockchain and DeFi—with hands-on blockchain/web3 work in Solidity/Vyper and React/web3.js, and has built exchange-integrated trading bots. His background spans mobile and desktop integrations (Bluetooth, NFC, GPS, Qt, GTK) and early Java/C# enterprise systems, reflecting an ability to move across stacks and lifecycle stages. As an entrepreneur he ran his own software consultancy and now contributes to university programs, bringing practical product experience into the classroom. Outside engineering he’s a musician who plays saxophone and drums, a creative detail that often informs his collaborative work style.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Programa de Perfeccionamiento en Cloud Computing: Cloud DevOps, Computer Science, Programa de Perfeccionamiento en Cloud Computing: Cloud DevOps, Computer Science at Universidad de Mendoza